I had a three-year long depression strike which ruined my first college experience. Took some time to recover the basics, and I am still pulling things back together.

The headlines are exaggerated. The Sony gaming division has done some mistakes during the PS3 time which at its peak had the global economical crisis, and then releasing the PS4 stresses the gaming division even further. We'll need a few more years to actually see if Sony's really done for or not.

Well, that's good. It would feel awkward to clear up a long list of lies I posted on The Flood in 2010-2011.

I know the name from a while ago, but I can't associate anything with it.

No, I didn't change my username here. Plus this is the username I usually go by.

Did your username used to be longer?

Many names, many alts... Uh, and a bunch of other names I don't remember.

So... who were you on b.net?

Let us drink some tea, Elegiac-kun.

Or teens whose thoughts have been drowned by hormones.

Butthurt he got banned?
Coming back for "vengeance" is popular with anally frustrated idiots.

The song fits perfectly, as I think about Otacon crying.

What you don't understand exactly? Maybe it's the way I explain things.

And I'm just sitting here barely understanding anything because I only took one year of Web Design.

Doesn't matter what the site runs into. CSS can change the styling of pretty much everything. PHP is there to ensure that the content is pulled and shown, and HTML is just a silly thing to have a certain structure with which to interwove everything into.

The issue really happens, in case, for example, that there's a hot topic, but from the code perspective there's no icon loaded for a "hot thread" and therefore, with CSS, I can't really show an icon for a hot thread if the forum doesn't give out which one is a hot thread.

Right now, the issue would be basically overwriting certain things that are handled in the way SMF handles themes. Therefore, it would be much easier for me to just write a theme for SMF from scratch based on old Bungie.net and some nice touch for icons, rather than do the work of both finding ways to manipulate the current theme, and to make them work and look like a website from 2008.

Again, with hot threads the sample is that the hot thread icon is loaded through an image tag in HTML. I would have to inject using CSS to hide the image tag after the specific class of the table and then overwrite it with a background image that I would will to simulate the icon of Bungie.old. Here's the code for this sample;

td.icon2 .windowbg img {
    background: url(hot_thread.gif); /* New hot thread image */
}
That's code just for the CSS. I would have to translate into a javascript  source file, which is then loaded through Greasemonkey and effectively injects itself with the current theme.

The mobile theme just uses media queries to re-size everything, which you could probably check out by using "inspect element". How much are you looking to change, anyway? CSS styles can only do so much when the site runs in PHP.

It's alright, but it's just a huge amount of work. Because I would have to take whatever we have from archived pages of Bungie.net, re-write it (Bungie.net's style code was a mess), and finally re-implement it to comply with the current theme and SMF. Which would mean each time Cheat would apply a change, I'd have to rush through everything and fix it.

I think it would be better, if we started a GitHub project for it, rather than suggest people with the ability to take onto such a large, and time consuming task on their hands alone.

Well maybe you should look into making that theme eh?

EDIT: I hope this doesn't come off as me being facetious

Sith > Jedi. Dark robes are better.

Scripting, as in JS and CSS? I can handle those. I have some experience in web design.

Hmm I wonder who else is good at scripting besides Solonoid.....

Not the case. Probably because the user profiles, and forum profiles are tied, an issue with the game-related website database, which pulls the data from the game, could have caused a chain of issues. Probably someone deployed new code, or changes applied in the environment of the database. Hardware failure or change is also possible.

Bungie.net pulls the data from PSN, and Xbox Live respectively into small packages, which are then put into Bungie.net's servers and finally rendered as data for the website. That's the same structure they have been using since the days of Halo 2.

But it could also be that someone decided to host the site on the Destiny servers, yeah. That'd be dumb.

I think the forum images should be closer to what they looked in older Bungie.net. The current images are nice, but they feel very casual with the unique style of the community.

 Here's an example of what I am talking about.